basalt slab

So she held herself at the far end of the basalt slab they were using for a table.

An upright basalt slab was found, which may have been of local religious significance.

This is a basalt slab broken in two horizontally.

It has a roof made of basalt slabs on top of well-built arches.

The entrance to the Shrine is marked by the dome's visual counterpoint, a vertical black basalt slab.

The courtyard was paved with irregularly shaped but polished black basalt slabs, some of which are still visible today.

In a surprisingly short time, the broken rock had been cleared away, revealing four huge basalt slabs standing on their edges, capped by a fifth.

Samples of troll pictograms engraved on basalt slabs have been found in rock layers dating back 500,000 years.

An oblong basalt slab, the bottom rough, the top partly cut and polished, it recalls a plain and mesa.

Here the walls and ceiling were no longer bare rock, but stacked and carefully fitted basalt slabs and blocks.

The groaning became louder, and Kirk realized it was the sound of the basalt slab scraping against the walls of the cube.

She headed for Narviat's tomb, one among a row of monumental basalt slabs marked with names she had known since childhood.

As his followers entered the room, giving deep-throated tones of elation, Xitli calmly seated himself upon the basalt slab.

It has also been seeking the Rosetta Stone, the basalt slab bearing an inscription that was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Once inside the sheltering lagoon, sunlight bathes the basalt slab of Mount Otemanu in a rainbow of changing colour.

Enormous stretches of barren salt-flats are interspersed with endless expanses of black sand and ridges of tumbled basalt slabs.

As touches of green began to peep between the basalt slabs of the hillsides of Auvergne, a courier on horseback galloped to the inn.

The foundations of the houses were made of buried basalt slabs with holes for wooden beams to connect with each other throughout the width of the house.

One of the basalt slabs (Number 1) was cut using a water-cooled diamond saw into pieces that allowed tests to be carried out in accordance with the appropriate standard test methods.

The wings of the cloister are paved in basalt slabs, and covered by vaulted ceiling, and opens onto the building dependencies by rounded archways over pilasters.

She closed her eyes, thinking back over the day, seeing again the great basalt slab into which her father's image had been cut, and gave a little shiver, then reached out to blank the viewer.

The Rosetta Stone is a basalt slab inscribed with a decree of pharaoh Ptolemy Epiphanes (205-180 BC) in three languages, Greek, Hieroglyphic and Demotic script.

The geometric pattern of the basalt slabs paving the road contrasts with the whorls and bubbles of the lava, which looks like chocolate cake batter frozen as it ran off the spoon.

In 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovered a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria.

Beyond the gate, back from the portals, stretched a flight of enormous basalt slabs, a giant's stairway indeed; and from each side of it marched the high walls that were the Dweller's pathway.